"The purest of all the vitrifiable stones is the diamond, which is perfectly white, free from all color or stain, and transparent. This stone is also known to be the hardest of all, is absolutely apyrous, that is, incapable of receiving any alteration by the most violent heat. We, therefore, consider the matter of this stone as the purest, simplest, and most elementary earth that is known. The properties, then, of this stone, and of the other vitrifiable stones which resemble it, may give us notions of the properties of primary, elementary, unchanged earth. In this our opinion is conformable to that of the illustrious Stahl, who indeed admits the three earths of Becker; but, at the same time, corrects the theory of this chemist, by declaring that he only considers the first earth of Becker, or vitrifiable earth, as the proper terrestrial or earthy element."
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Note: Specimen Beckerianura, p. 44. No. 25.
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